Brief Life History of Joshua
When Joshua Savage was born on 24 May 1840, in Greene, Alabama, United States, his father, Benjamin Jacin Savage, was 24 and his mother, Clarissa Donaldson, was 28. He had at least 5 sons and 5 daughters with Josephine D McCarty. He lived in Beat 3, Tate, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Beat 4, Tate, Mississippi, United States in 1910. He died on 26 December 1911, in Tate, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Looxahoma, Tate, Mississippi, United States.
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Sources (8)
- Joshua Savage, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Joshua Savage - Published information: birth: 24 May 1840; Greene, Alabama, United States
- J. Savage, "Mississippi, Marriages, 1800-1911"
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World Events (7)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: of Norman origin, a nickname for a wild or uncouth person, from Middle English and Old French salvage, sauvage ‘wild, untamed’ (from Late Latin salvaticus, literally ‘man of the woods’, a derivative of Latin silva ‘wood’ influenced by Latin salvus ‘whole’, i.e. natural). Compare French Sauvage .
Irish (Down): generally of English origin (it was taken to County Down in the 12th century), this name has also sometimes been adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Sabháin, the name of a small south Munster sept, which was earlier Anglicized as O'Savin (see Savin ).
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Savich and of Serbian Savić (see Savic ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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